Flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily grounded on Friday morning due to suspected drone activity, an airport spokesperson said. The suspension was in effect from 10:13 to 10:45 a.m. local time (0613-0645 GMT) before flights were cleared to resume, Dubai Airport said. Service was now back to normal, the Dubai Media Office tweeted. Dubai airport, the hub for airlines Emirates and flydubai, is the world’s busiest for international travelers. It served 81.4 million ...

Heathrow resumed flights, a spokeswoman for Europe's biggest airport said, after departures were disrupted for an hour on Tuesday following reports of a drone sighting. Flights had been suspended at 1705 GMT, police said. Last month, London's second-busiest airport, Gatwick, was severely disrupted when drones were sighted over three days, forcing the cancellation of around 1,000 flights.

A series of drone sightings over the runway of Britain’s second-largest airport forced it to shut down three times in three days last week. Around a 1,000 flights had to be cancelled and about 140,000 passengers were stranded at Gatwick airport, in the run up to Christmas, the country’s biggest public holiday and one of the busiest times of the year for airlines. Police and military specialists were deployed to search for the drones and anti-drone technology used by the army was ...

A man and a woman arrested over the drone disruption that brought Christmas getaway flights to a standstill at London’s Gatwick Airport were released without charge on Sunday, police said. A 47-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman from the town of Crawley, near Britain's second-busiest airport, were arrested on Saturday. The police swooped after three days of disruption from Wednesday to Friday, affecting 140,000 passengers. “Both people have fully co-operated with our enquiries and ...

Two people have been arrested in connection with the “criminal use of drones” at London Gatwick Airport, police said Saturday, after three days of disruption in which and tens of thousands of people missed their flights.“As part of our ongoing investigations into the criminal use of drones which has severely disrupted flights in and out of Gatwick Airport, Sussex Police made two arrests just after 10:00pm (2200 GMT) on December 21”, the force’s Superintendent James ...

London’s Gatwick Airport reopened on Friday after a drone saboteur wrought travel chaos for hundreds of thousands of Christmas travelers by flying drones overhead, playing cat-and-mouse with police snipers and the army. After the biggest disruption at Gatwick, Britain’s second busiest airport, since a volcanic ash cloud in 2010, Gatwick said its runway was open and that 700 planes were due to take off on Friday, although there would still be delays and cancellations. ...

A major international airport in Britain was forced to ground flights after reports of drones flying over the airfield, the airport said Thursday. Flights into Gatwick Airport, south of London, were diverted to other cities across the country while passengers waiting to take off faced long delays just days ahead of Christmas, the UK’s Press Association news agency reported. “Following reports of two drones flying over the Gatwick Airport airfield we have had to suspend flights while ...

Russia’s military said it had shot down a drone that came close to its Syrian air base at Hmeimim on Saturday and was launched from the Idlib “de-escalation” zone controlled by what Moscow calls “illegal military groups”, TASS agency reported.The drone caused no casualties or damage, and the Hmeimim air base is operating as normal, the agency said.The recent incident is the second in less than 48 hours.Late on Friday night, Syrian air defenses engaged an ...

The Russian military has downed a drone targeting the Hmeimim air base in Syria, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday. The drone, launched from territory controlled by Syrian rebels, was detected on August 9, RIA reported.

Israel launched a Patriot interceptor missile on Friday at a drone spotted approaching from Syria near Israeli-occupied Golan Heights close to the Lake of Tiberias (Bohayrat Tabaraya). Tel Aviv has warned Damascus of any kind of approaches towards the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in 1967. In June 24, the Israeli army said its air forces launched a missile towards a drone which was near its northern border coming from Syria and forced it to retreat back. While in February Israel said an ...